Dr Kim Cocks

Freelance Medical Statistician

Kim is a chartered medical statistician with more than 15 years’ experience in pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, independent consultancy and academia. She has previously set up two statistics departments, writing their standard operating procedures and recruiting plus managing a team of up to 10 statisticians. Her clinical trials experience covers a variety of disease areas including cancer, haematology, cardiology, anaesthesia, surgery and wound care.

She has project managed a number of large multi-centre clinical trials and been involved in all stages of clinical trial set up, from grant applications, study design and sample size, statistical analysis plans, protocol writing, through to SAS programming, analysis and report writing. Her research interests include the measurement of quality of life, longitudinal analysis in the presence of informative missing data and survival analysis. She has published extensively in the clinical trials field and has a track record in designing trials for novel drugs/devices